
04-27-2014, 07:22 AM
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Not riding the train
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Re: It's Time To Draft Ted Cruz for President
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Originally Posted by Fionn mac Cumh
Can someone answer my ?s. Where can I find his voting record and I thought if you werent born here you cant be POTUS? isnt he a canuck?
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Read the information for yourself and you can decide. His mother is and was a US citizen.
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CRS Report for Congress
Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress
Qualifications for President and the “Natural Born” Citizenship Eligibility Requirement
The weight of more recent federal cases, as well as the majority of scholarship on the subject, also indicates that the term “natural born citizen” would most likely include, as well as native born citizens, those born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents, at least one of whom had previously resided in the United States, or those born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent who, prior to the birth, had met the requirements of federal law for physical presence in the country. (233)
(233) See now 8 U.S.C. §1401(a) - (h). Under current law, at 8 U.S.C. §1401(g), a person born abroad to one U.S. citizen-parent would be a citizen at birth if that parent had resided in the United States for at least five years, two of which were after the time the parent was 14 years of age.
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42097.pdf
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